Motography (Apr-Jun 1916)

1460 MOTOGRAPHY Vol. XV, No. 26. extended about five blocks down a narrow street, and had mountains towering above, in the background. Jule Power, who appears as Mrs. David Stafford in "Gloria's Romance," made her New York debut on the speaking stage in support of Wilton Lackaye and was later engaged by William A. Brady to appear with Grace George in "Divorcons." "The Masked Rider," just completed, is the second Metro play featuring Harold Lockwood and May Allison. It is laid in the mountains of North Carolina. Peggy Hyland, the popular English actress who recently came to this country, has been signed by the Vitagraph Company to appear as leading lady with E. H. Sothern. They are at work in a drama by Paul West. Edith Storey and Antonio Moreno have the leading roles of "The Shop 'Girl," a Vitagraph Blue Ribbon feature for June 26. This is a picturization of the novel by the same name by C. N. and A. M. Williamson and was directed b" George D. Baker. Pauline Frederick appears as a dancer in a western mining camp in the Famous Players' adaptation of E. Phillips Oppenheim's story, "The World's Great Snare." "Character Building in Children" is a late chapter in the campaign for "Better Babies" being waged in the Paramount Pictographs. In these pictures, mothers are shown how to aid the child properlv in its mental and moral growth. Alex K. Shannon of the William Fox forces in Fort Lee, N. J., has been elected president of the Fort Lee Screen Club, a newly-organized social association. In four weeks, this club has grown to a membership of 225 men. Marcus Morarity, who plays the role of the butler in the Metro-Columbia production, "The Flower of No Man's Land," was a bugler in Sherman's army in the Civil war. Mr. Morarity is 72 years old and has been a motion picture actor for eight years. Many of the big out-door scenes in the new William Fox picture in which Madame Bertha Kalich is appearing were made on the estate of E. Drexel Godfrey, of Redbank, N. J. Mr. Godfrey has a projecting outfit in his house and entertained the actors often with pictures in his own moving-picture show. Little Gretchen Hartman, who appeared in "Mary Jane's Pa" and other plays on the speaking stage, has a 5<rown-up part in the Metro-Rolfe production, "The Purple Ladv." Duncan McRae, who plays the male lead in "The Flower of No Man's Land," is a successful writer of plays. The Gamut Club produced his sketch, "The Woman Across the Way" recently, with Mr. McRae and Minnie Dupree in the leading roles. Henry Kolker, leading man in the Billie Burke serial, will not remain in pictures but will return to the speaking stage this winter, Ed Wortham, technical director of the William Fox company, which is now working at Cliffside, N. J., has achieved .i record in erecting scenes i|r placed seventeen sets in one day. Guido Colucci, who plays the proprietor of the Purple Lightning Cafe in "The Purple Lady," is a native of Alexandria, Egypt. Henry Leone, well known as a comic opera bandit of the speaking and singing stage, plays an Italian organ-grinder A fascinating little Bo-Peep view of Edna Goodrich, the Morosco star. in Mme. Petrova's play, "The Eternal Question." Mabel Taliaferro, now in Metro pictures, is a writer of distinction. She has contributed often to The Smart Set, The Black Cat, and other periodicals. Elizabeth Le Roy, who appears in "Notorious Gallagher," played with Viola Allen in the stage production of "The White Sister." Marguerite Skirvin has the role of a western girl in the Metro-Rolfe play, "The Quitter," starring Lionel Barrymore. Miss Skirvin's home is in Oklahoma and she learned to ride wild horses th^rc. Clifford Bruce, who played the reporter hero in "The Fourth Estate," is again with the Fox players and will be featured in other productions. Charles C. O'Hara has finished rhc first nf ten comedies For the Huntington Film Company. Other players in the cast are Billy Bowers, F. A. Wade, Harry Robinson, Tommy Mulius and Edgar Scudder. Alexander Pantages, the western vaudeville ntagnate, is soon to begin the production of film comedies. These comedies, whose leading player has not been announced, will be released on the -Pantages Vaudeville circuit. Donald Brian will soon be seen on the screen in a Famous Players production. Henrietta Goodwyn, who closed her stock at the Elsmere, Bronx, will be featured in motion pictures. Harris Gordon, who recently left the Thanhouser Company, is back in New York after a trip to Florida. Max Karger, general manager of Metro productions, is a violinist and was a member of the Metropolitan Opera House orchestra for several years. Courtney Foote and Elliott Dexter have signed contracts to appear on the screen for one year under the Morosco banner. Charmine Mayfield and Garry McGarry are two of the latest additions to \ itagraph's staff of players. Maurice Tourneur is making preparations for filming an all-star World feature under the supervision of William A. Brady. Barney Bernard and Jennie Moskowltz, late of "Potash and Perlmutter in Society" are to appear in several pictures for Vitagraph. "Tess of The Storm Country," the Famous Players' success, featuring Mary Pickford, is being shown at the Strand theater, New York, instead of "The Evil Thereof," first booked. E. W. Sweigert, exchange manager of the International Film Service, Inc.. at Philadelphia, was married on June 7 to Miss Marjorie E. Hall, also of Philadelphia. Director Marshall Neilan and a company of Selig players have arrived in New York City, where they will film special scenes for "The Prince Chap." Bessie Eyton, who heads the company is making her first trip to New York.' "The Girl Phillipa," Robert W. Chambers' latest story, is to be filmed bv the \ itagraph Company with Anita Stewart in the title role. S. Rankin Drew is directing. ''Where Love Is," an adaptation of the William J. Locke novel, has been begun at the Edison studio, with Ann Murdock and Henry Stanford in the leading roles Leonie Flugarth, Mabel Trunnelle and Bigelow Cooper are in the supporting cast. Alice Lindahl, principal feminine support of Margaret Anglin in "A Woman of No Importance," is to head a motion picture of her own, to he known as the Alice Lindahl Photoplays Company. Owen Moore and Hazel Dawn are to be co-starred soon in a Famous Players production of a screen version of a famous Stage success, the title as vet not announced. Frank Shaw, who has been looking after the details of the advertising and publicity of the news service department of the Vitagraph, has been officially appointed to the position of manager of the reorganized department